The shared delusions of Trump, MBS

By Gwynne Dyer Nov. 21, 2018

The depth and duration of the American obsession with Iran is best explained not by strategy but by psychology. Iran, like Cuba, overthrew an American puppet ruler long ago (the Shah in Iran, Batista in Cuba) and successfully defied subsequent U.S. attempts to snuff out the revolution. For that, neither country has ever been forgiven.

This relationship between Donald Trump and MBS, genuinely warm and yet deeply cynical, does offer us an entry point into the weird pseudo-strategies that bind the White House and the Saudi leadership together, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Global Affairs Canada

“It’s a suffering tape, it’s a terrible tape,” the Snowflake-in-Chief told Fox News on Sunday, defending his refusal to listen to the recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi being murdered and sawn into pieces in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul. “I know everything that went on in the tape without having to hear it. It was very violent, very vicious and terrible.”

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